Mad Men, Death and the American Dream - Bronfen, Elisabeth
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Matthew Weiner's series Mad Men is more than a resonant time capsule. Elisabeth Bronfen's claim is that the show not only thrives on a significant double voicing, reviving the literature, film, music and fashion of the past within and for the cultural concerns of the present. With Don Draper an embodiment of the prototypical con man, his precarious journey from poverty to fame and prosperity can also be seen as a continuation of the moral perfectionism so key to the American tradition. His fall and spiritual recovery is as much an individual story as a comment on the state of the nation. Mad…mehr

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Matthew Weiner's series Mad Men is more than a resonant time capsule. Elisabeth Bronfen's claim is that the show not only thrives on a significant double voicing, reviving the literature, film, music and fashion of the past within and for the cultural concerns of the present. With Don Draper an embodiment of the prototypical con man, his precarious journey from poverty to fame and prosperity can also be seen as a continuation of the moral perfectionism so key to the American tradition. His fall and spiritual recovery is as much an individual story as a comment on the state of the nation. Mad Men reflects on the role television has come to play in this work of the cultural imaginary, both fragile and fruitful. We identify and sympathize with the people in this series not despite but because they are fictional representations, different yet also a mirror of ourselves.
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Autorenporträt
Elisabeth Bronfen ist Professorin für English and American Studies an der Universität Zürich und seit 2007 Global Distinguished Professor an der New York University. 1990 habilitierte sie sich mit einer Arbeit über die Ästhetisierung toter Frauen durch männliche Künstler. Sie hat zahlreiche Bücher in den Bereichen Gender Studies, Psychoanalyse, Film und Kulturwissenschaften veröffentlicht, arbeitet derzeit an einem Buch über Shakespeare und die Gegenwartskultur und schreibt über Frauen als Kriegsberichterstatter.